Question

Use the chart below to answer the question that follows:


Europe and Africa to Americas Americas and Europe to Africa
Plants coffee, sugar cane, bananas, melons, olives, barley, wheat, oats, rice, ragweed, bluegrass, dandelions, daisies, clover maize (corn), potatoes, sweet potatoes, peanuts, squash, pumpkins, tomatoes, peppers, papaya, guava, avocado, pineapple, manioc, cacao, chicle, tobacco
Animals cattle, chickens, horses, goats, sheep, pigs llamas, alpacas, turkeys, guinea pigs
Humans African slaves, European merchants, officials, priests, and settlers few
Diseases smallpox, yellow fever, malaria, measles, chicken pox, influenza, common cold syphilis

The chart above illustrates what historians have called the
Triangular Trade
Middle Passage
Columbian Exchange
Great Atlantic Schism